The press is, at its best, the strong and steady hand at keeping the public informed. No surprise, it is the twin Watergate-tested news institutions of The New York Times and The Washington Post that continue to lead that informing.
First Sinclair and now the Kochs are back. In an age of media free-for-all and massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?
“The New York Times, The Washington Post, and ProPublica, among others, have risen to the national occasion. But they can’t be expected to grapple with the real, transcendent issues state by state, community by community.”
Reporters and editors from prominent news organizations waded through the challenges (new and old) of reporting in the current political climate during a Harvard University event on Tuesday night.
Readers have finally understood that their payments for the news will actually make a difference in what they and their community know. That model needs to be extended down to states and cities.
“It’s not experimentation that is most needed. It’s execution, and execution based on the value of smarter, rather than dumbed-down, local journalism.”
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: After John Oliver, the you-get-what-you-pay-for imperative has never been clearer." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Aug. 2016. Web. 10 Sep. 2024.
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Doctor, K. (2016, Aug. 10). Newsonomics: After John Oliver, the you-get-what-you-pay-for imperative has never been clearer. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 10, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/08/newsonomics-after-john-oliver-the-you-get-what-you-pay-for-imperative-has-never-been-clearer/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: After John Oliver, the you-get-what-you-pay-for imperative has never been clearer." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 10, 2016. Accessed September 10, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/08/newsonomics-after-john-oliver-the-you-get-what-you-pay-for-imperative-has-never-been-clearer/.
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